august

spolia
‘(Latin for 'spoils') are stones taken from an old structure and repurposed for new construction or decorative purposes’

L: ‘Ostia, composite capital with smooth leaves from the nymphaeum of the Domus of Amore e Psyche, late fourth century – early fifth century AD’
R: ‘Spolia embedded in the facade of a Seljuk-era mausoleum, environs of Eskişehir, Turkey, 1997. Scan of print of b/w negative, Rolleiflex T Tessar f3.5’











july
solvitar ambulando






june



may
grace note


Jordan MacRae business cards

april

I-thought-linear-was-safe, group exhibition, NGS





march

Paris


february




january


Postcards from Taylor

visits
- Brussels
Kiosk
WIELS
- Antwerp
MOMU 
M HKA
KMSKA
- Romare, Berkeley Suite

reading
- Inside the White Cube, Brian O’Doherty

watched
- Ruth Rendell mysteries

made
- puff black silk horse
- Jordan anniversary hand-bound book
- Ruchill Free Church Halls Maryhill maquette

notes -Vaast Colson, Helena Scultpure (2006)
- Taus Makhacheva, Ring Road (2018)
- Notice board frame à la Sint Anna’s tunnel

Avenue Clémentine 4, Brussel


visits
- Glasgow Salvage yard
- Glasgow Art Weekend openings- Modern Institute, RAAT, Roosies Disobediant press
- Taylor’s inaugeral Soft Serve night, La Cheetahs
- Lake District

reading
- Plastic Milk, Megan Rudden

watched
- High Spirits (1988), Neil Jordan
- Sense and Sensibility (2026), Georgia Oakley

made
- m.o.p button cardigan
- August book, hand-bound, m.o.p, star confetti and printed images
- birthday card for Steven with hand- bound book front, printed images 
- leather mini horse x2
- padded soft leather big horse keychain

notes / screenshot
- Dame Barbara Speake’s home, Ealing
- Ballenberg museum
- Richard Sides at Mies van der Rohe house
- wood elevator Antwerp
- True Mountain Laurel
- The Store 1983 Frederick Wiseman
- The Animals short film Calvin Demba 
- Frances Macdonald wedding dress
- The Hours film 
- Star Theatre fire 1884
- vault lights
- Annie Laurie
- 58 Gibson Street
- Book of Ruins, John Dixon Hunt and David Leatherbarrow
- Callebaut Belgian pink chocolate, Abie’s favourite
- Fortingall Yew tree
- Grillwork
-Carbisdale castle
- Our Legacy Camion boots









visits
- Burnbank bowling club
- Brian Dillon: Ambivalence, talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival
- Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon, Finlay Pretsell at Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop, Dovecot studios
- GSA Postgradue show
- W2 Summer party
- Dumbarton castle

reading
- Brian Dillon, Sanctuary

watched
- Berkeley Square, series (1998)
- A Handful of Dust (1988)
- Fake or Fortune series
- Vanishing Voyage (1953)
- The Night Walker (1964)
- The House The Would Not Die (1970)
- The Blue Gardenia (1953)
- Death at Love House (1976)

made
- Black leather horses
- Black cotton canvas apron for Taylor

screenshot / notes
- Lutz Bacher
- Body Heat film
- unvarnished matte paintings with close wood borders
- constellation notes lampshade
- Artist Robert Colquhoun 
- Seamus Heaney Bog Queen
- Briefest Encounters, an untold love story 
- Chekhov’s pane of glass
- Maud ship
- ‘He that tholes overcomes’
- National Museum, Basil Spence furniture for H Morris & co, Watt street excavation site Glasgow, Verreville pottery in Finnieston, chamber candlestick, J & MP Bell & co, Wylie & Lochhead department store, latticino glass, (railway) works plates, amen wine glass
- Cosprop, cornelli lace, georgette sleeves, Tess (1979), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), The Golden Bowl (2000), Scarlett (1994), Honiton lace



















attended
- Chevalière D’Eon curator’s talk, Kelvingrove
- Bumper magazine launch, David Dale gallery
- Heaven Part Four, Flat exhibition, Partick

reading
- Brian Dillon, Ambivalence (read)
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

made
- graduation horse charms (mortarboards) in black silk chiffon for Jess and Jordan
- Mother of pearl button horse, nude chiffon base
- 30th invites after the note from ‘I Hired a Contract Killer’ (1990)

screenshot/ notes
- The diary of Alice James, Internet Archive 
- Jedburgh Abbey from the South, Thomas Girtin
- Hikikomori
- Amanda Webster, photo editor NYtimes
- Brian Dillon Ambivalence notes; Chris Marker films, Maeve Break ‘The Long-Winded Lady’, John Ruskin ‘The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century’ and Pandaemonium, 1660-1886 : the coming of the machine as seen by contemporary observers, John Cage lectures on Silence, acedia, 
- Chevalière D’Eon curator’s talk, Kelvingrove
- The East End Industrial Exhibition 1890
- In house blend clothing
- Mixte frame bikes
- Lucien Freud, Autumn Still Life, 1951
- Le Tap
- Trojan Horse Exit Strategies: A Compendium inside the Belly of Contemporary Art Instituitions, Ati
- Beyond Caring: Para-hosting as Curatorial Escape, Paul O’Neill
- The Non-Actor, short film
- Village Scene, Barbizon, about 1850-60, Adolphe Hervier
- Luckin Coffee- Patrick Kelvingrove
- Scaffolder’s belt
- Dunderhead, Tomoko Yoshida
- Drumchapel ruins
- Mottoware
- A Girl Asleep on a Sofa, about 1875, Jacob Maris
- 1974 BBC tv play Penda’s Fen
- British Vogue August editorial George Mackay

watched
- The Dumb Waiter - Harold Pinter
- The Red House (1946) 
- My Cousin Rachel (1952)
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Flora by Henry James (1974)
- Milly (1975) Rosalind Ayres
- Tiny Furniture (2010)
- Daphne du Maurier documentary










attended
- The Glasgow School of Art, Showcase graduate fashion show, 2026
- Glasgow International Opening Party
- Jim Lambie Saltoun street exhibition
- Glasgow International
- Aldous Harding, Kelvingrove bandstand
- Noé Bick, an -aH, an -AH, an -AÏE
- Joanna Pietrowska, A moment of Darkness at Noon, The Common Guild

reading
- My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, Deborah Levy
- Ambivalence, Brian Dillon

made
- Black leather horse keycharm for Dan
- digs house sewing supplies pouch
- Leather photo pocket keycharm
- Rice paper house lantern lamp x 2

screenshot / notes -
- My Undesirable Friends (2025) documentary
- coffin corners- interior design for stairs
- Babbity Bowser
- Nobody Wants You Here, Krzysztof Gil, exhibition
- Tullie house merch 
- rice paper lantern lamps diy
- sepulchral - ‘describes something relating to a tomb, grave, or the burial of the dead. More broadly, it is used to describe things that are excessively gloomy, solemn, or suggestive of death—such as a deep, hollow voice’
- Flemish corner
- xteink x4
- Michelle Obama ACNE studios skirt with late mother’s image
- Velo orange bike parts
- Francis Smith Glasgow furniture maker
- The Brontë Sisters (1979) (Isabelle Hubbert)
- Marni SS 2003 silk printed vest 
- le.tap id sticker

watched
- In The Hands of Passing Time (2024) Skylight Gallery Oslo (First Cut)
- Whirlpool (1950)
- Perfect Days, Wim Wenders (2023)
- The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino (2013)
- The Consequences of Love, Paolo Sorrentino (2004) 
- Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle (1958)
- The Apartment, Billy Wilder (1960)
- 1972: Moving to a "Town of the 21st Century"BBC Archive
- The Flame, John H. Auer (1947)
 
attended
- Close market, 5 march
- W2 x Public Relations, Jordan MacRae screening
- Katrina Brown leaving party, The Common Guild
- The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show
- Scottish Women Artists talk on the Glasgow Society of Women Artists, Mitchell Library

made
- Jordan MacRae business cards, hand-stamped sourced vintage and antique postcards (within reason)
- Leather giraffe for Andy, leather horse keycharm, leather horse and foal keycharm for Annie 

screenshot / notes
- Molten lead lump removed from the stomach of 94-year-old lighthouse keeper Henry Hall following the 1755 Eddystone Lighthouse fire, National Museum of Scotland storage
- ‘Merciful’ seats, Burrell collection
- ‘7 up’ documentary series, 1964 - 
- Strandhuset, National Museum of Oslo
- John Gielgud, No Man’s Land (1978)
- Katsuhito Ishii, The Taste of Tea (2004)
- Secretly.sporty podcast Michelle Millar
- Piter FM (film)
- Mother of pearl buttons on plain black top
- Antique bike headbadges
- Éanna Hardwicke
- Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Untitled (1969) painting
- Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus (1959) film
- The Number 1 Bead Shop, Paisley
- Robert Frank & June Leaf, Bleeker street house
- The Flying Scotsman (2006) film

watched
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) DNF
- Laura (1944)
- Fallen Angel (1945)





attended
- Black Waters: Inference to the Veil, Reid Gallery
- I-thought-linear-was-safe, group exhibition, NGS
- MFA Interim show, Glue Factory attended
- Spritz Editions tape launch, 5 Florence Street
- Shannon Cartier Lucy, Woman with a juice box, Soft Opening
- Zofia Rydet, Sociological Record, The Photographer’s Gallery
- Peter Doig, House of Music, Serpentine
- The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery
- Celtic Connections (various Scots, Trad and international Folk music performances)

made
- Raw silk horses, embroidery patches and keyrings
- Raw silk rosette for Liv 

screenshot / notes
- Imbolc
- Kendall Koppe new exhibition Between Sight and Breath - Raymond Depardon, Reporters (1981)
- Television (book), Lauren Rotheray, Daly recommendation
- The Mercat Cross, Glasgow, carved animal bannister heads
- Royal Ballet screening subscription
- Chrisopher Wood, painter
- Embassy Gallery, No More Painting reading group
- Moeder House Musée, Spass art space Brussels
- National Theatre, Summerfolk, Maxim Gorky
- ‘Glasgow School of Art ‘may never be fully restored’, The Herald
- Costume couture: Sixty years of Cosprop, Dovecot studios Edinburgh 18th July 2026
- Together (2001), King of Jazz (1930)
- Sebb Brown engraved studio address plate
- Pergola Gardens, Hampsted
- The Folly, Wetheral
- India of Inchinnan, Renfrewshire
- The Museum is Not Enough, CCA, book 

watched
- Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
- The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus
- Rear Window, Hitchcock
- Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
- Hamnet, Chloe Zhao